Category: FinTech

Taskize, the Euroclear-owned provider of inter-company workflow solutions to the financial services industry, has hired Alan Samuel as head of sales, based in London. Samuel was most recently chief sales officer of LSE listed low-latency cloud provider Beek’s Group. Prior to this, he was an account director at Equinix.

Northern Trust has hired Alvin Chia as head of digital assets innovation for Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, Chia is responsible for delivering innovations aligned to Northern Trust’s digital asset strategy to clients across the Asia-Pacific region. Chia reports to Justin Chapman, global head of digital assets and financial markets. Chia was most recently the…

CACEIS, the European asset servicing group, has added Clarity AI to its app store, Connect Store. Clarity AI analyses more than 50,000 companies and 300,000 funds, 198 countries and 188 local governments, using machine learning and big data to deliver insights on sustainability. Clarity AI provides direct access to a broad universe of ESG, climate,…

Accelex, the UK-based data acquisition, analytics and reporting solution for private markets investors and asset servicers, has been appointed by Axiom Asia Private Capital to provide its SaaS solution in support of its private equity investment data extraction activities. Axiom Asia currently manages nine private equity funds, with total commitments of over USD7bn.

BNP Paribas has appointed Franck Delbes as CEO of Manaos, the investment services platform connecting institutional clients to ESG data and analytics providers. The platform helps investors collect fund inventories from their asset managers for full look-through analysis of their portfolios. It also provides clients with access to ESG data and analytics providers to help…

Ontra, a provider of contract automation and intelligence solutions for asset managers, will acquire the material assets of Captain, a technology provider in the alternative funds space. The move will allow Ontra to bolster its legal operating system for private markets, providing asset managers with a more streamlined and efficient experience for private markets transactions.…

Charles River Development, a State Street company, is collaborating with DirectBooks, enabling investment firms to manage primary issuance workflows in the Charles River Investment Solution (Charles River IMS). DirectBooks optimises primary issuance of fixed income securities by streamlining communications workflows between underwriters and institutional investors. Currently, 22 underwriters and over 250 institutional investors, including 17…